ip&tv forum EurAsiaEastEurope 2011

Leading the IP&TV Business Strategy in Eastern Europe

08:30
Registration and Coffee
09:00
Informa Welcome & Speed Networking Session
09:05
Chairman's Introduction
- Stephen Wilson
  
  Senior Analyst
  
  Informa Telecoms & Media

Leadership Insights into the Future of Multiplatform TV

09:10
Strategies for Integrating Multiscreen Experience as part of a Premium Service
- IPTV, Web TV and Mobile TV offering for increased customer stickiness
- Overcoming integration challenges and preparing an excellent viewing quality
- Marketing strategies for tapping into a massive broadband customer base
- Outlook for OTT opportunity in Turkish Markets – how to make OTT and IPTV work together for an increased return
- Ramazan Demir
  
  VP Strategy and Business Development
  
  Türk Telekom
09:30
Evolution from IPTV to the Connected Home
- Focusing on Service Promotion for the Connected Home
- Educating Customers about the benefits they will be getting from a connected home
- Overcoming security issues with transferring content across the screens
- Offering features like cloud based photo and video storage
- Anatoliy Smorgonski
  
  Head of Marketing Department of TV Services & Content
  
  Vimpelcom/Beeline, Russia
09:50
Creating Content for Digital Multiplatform Age
- How technology changes the value of content and optimum level of entertainment?
- Audience approach: It is my TV – control over what content and when you watch different programmes
- Easy content discovery for user friendly experience
- TV shows as part of branding a service
- Doyran Dilek
  
  Distribution Director, Emerging Business
  
  Discovery Networks CEEMEA, Turkey
10:10
Improving Network Architecture for Good TV Experience
- Creating and improving architecture to enable HD quality TV via the IP network
- Latest efforts at Serbian telecom for HD delivery – subscriber number updates
- Best practise for managing large data requirements
- Sasa Lekovic
  
  CTO
  
  Telekom Srbija, Serbia
10:30
Networking Coffee Break

Establishing Quality of Experience Through Tried and Tested Technologies and New Architecture

11:30
Latest Development for Hybrid Delivery of Managed Services
- The importance of the set top box for accessing content from different sources
- Achieving quality by help of adaptive streaming
- Selecting and combining IPTV and DVB-T and DVB-C
- Seamless work of VoD, Pause, Rewind and Shift TV
- Attractive EPG for easy content discovery
- Tomaz Pernovsek
  
  Deputy Managing Director
  
  Planet 9, Slovenia
11:50
Utilising Hybrid Services – IP/Satellite as Means to Achieve True HD Experience
- Enhancing the Telco offering by high quality satellite distribution
- Increase end user's TV experience
- Monetizing the full offer over 100 % coverage
- Norbert Willems
  
  Vice President & Chief Regional Officer Central Western Europe & Turkey
  
  SES
12:10
Completing the Cinema Experience with Home Theatre Surround Sound
- Senior representative
  
  DTS, USA
12:30
Panel DiscussionWhat Needs to be Done to Improve Broadband Traffic Management and Satisfy Hunger for Bandwidth?
- Creating and improving architecture to enable large file transfers with managed quality – will CDNs be the answer to all challenges?
- Net Neutrality – how to achieve quality without impacting the usual broadband service?
- Latest regulation initiatives
- Hybrid delivery of managed services: will partnership between Telcos, Sateliite and Cable Operators benefit all?
- Sanin Kahvedzic
  
  Head of Services division
  
  BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Yuriy Komardin
  
  Head of Services, Planning and implementation, Technical Direction
  
  Kyivstar, Ukraine
- Toivo Praakel
  
  Network Director
  
  Elion Enterprises, Estonia
- Jim Crum
  
  Vice President, Sales for EMEA
  
  BTI Systems, Canada
13:00
Networking Lunch Break
Afternoon Chairman
- Nick Thomas
  
  Principal Analyst
  
  Informa Telecoms and Media, UK

OTTtv, IPTV and Multiplatform TV Sharing a Mutual Future

14:20
How to Manage Multiscreen Delivery and to Create a Consistent Experience Across Platforms?
- How to benefit from using a cloud as a platform in the home?
- Managing mobile platforms and offering a future of TV via handheld devices
- How to control and empower the consumer to create and consume own content?
- Looking into the future: How will Multiscreen evolve in the future? What will be expected of operators to offer seamless service?
- Istvan Maradi
  
  Chief Technology Officer
  
  Magyar Telekom, Hungary
14:40
Overcoming Integration Challenges and Setting up a Triple Play Value Added IPTV Service Successfully
- Reaching out to a wider audience by offering triple play services
- Using subsidies to increase viewership – multiplying the example with Toshiba
- Utilising social networks and games as part of the interactive offering
- Successful installations for IPTV apps – accessing Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and games by a click of a button
- Offering a user friendly billing service managed via internet
- Alexandr Yesayan
  
  General Director
  
  Ucom, Armenia
15:00
Enabling Multiscreen Video and Shared Content from Operator's Perspective
- Determining what multiscreen means to consumers
- How to secure multiscreen interactivity and transport content from one screen to another safely?
- Enabling easy access to identical content across multiple screens
- The benefits from one single service provider controlling the multiscreen activity through the home
- Tufan Unal
  
  Senior Director Digital Media
  
  TTNET, Turkey
15:20
Panel DiscussionThe Opportunities and Challenges for Multiscreen OTTtv, Connected TVand Connected Boxes
- Developing the multiplay strategy for existing broadband customers
- Attracting new customers through dedicated campaigns
- How to integrate middleware to recognise users moving between screens
- Pushing out linear content to mobile devices: mobile smart phones, tablets and other handheld devices
- Moderator: Jack Davison
  
  Managing Consultant
  
  3Vision, UK
- Turgut Kirci
  
  IPTV Interactive Services Manager
  
  TT NET, Turkey
- Jere Dumanic
  
  CMSO, Member of the Management Board
  
  Iskon Internet, UK
- Jim Welch
  
  Worldwide Marketing and Communications
  
  SecureMedia
15:50
Networking Coffee Break

Examining the OTT Opportunities and Effect on Local Markets

16:30
The Future of TV with Hybrid Services and Content Convergence
- Seamlessly bringing broadcast and IP technology together on a single pay-TV platform
- Delivering a great user experience as means to attract and retain customers
- Offering Pay-TV, VoIP, gateways and femtocells to ensure subscribers can access all sorts of services on their terms, on their devices in the ways they want
- What will the future look like with TVs enabled with interactive internet connectivity and OTT services?
- Who will survive in the constant value chain struggle?
- Wojciech Doganowski
  
  VP IP Multimedia Business Unit
  
  ADB
16:50
Strategies to Engage Content Industry and Operators through Attractive partnerships
- Looking at the creative concerns for content accessed across multiple screens
- Ensuring the right share is given to each part of the eco-system for successful TV delivery
- What are the challenges for content owners in a multiplatform TV environment?
- Are there benefits for making content available on the Internet?
- Milan Fridrich
  
  CT New Media Director
  
  Ceska Televize (Czech Television), Czech Republic
17:10
Panel DiscussionIs Multiscreen Service ready for a Mass Market Uptake? How to ensure same content works for different screens in the house? Is it safe shifting from one screen to another?
- Can multiscreen meet its hype?
- Are East European and Euro-Asian markets ready for multiscreen and mobile TV?
- Benefitting from the opportunity opened to content providers to increase number of viewers by catch up online TV
- Can Mobile Broadband meet demand for Video streaming?
- Pawel Baj
  
  Marketing Offer & Research Director
  
  Canal+ Cyfrowy, Poland
- Vadi Dipcin
  
  Acting Head of Digital TV and Convergence Services Team
  
  Turkcell, Turkey
- Atıf Ünaldı
  
  Vice President
  
  IPTV Association, Turkey
- Umit Sair
  
  Director of Internet TV Division
  
  Argela, Turkey
17:40
End Of Day One

Leading the IP&TV Business Strategy in Eastern Europe

Registration and Coffee

Informa Welcome & Speed Networking Session

Chairman's Introduction

Leadership Insights into the Future of Multiplatform TV

Strategies for Integrating Multiscreen Experience as part of a Premium Service

Evolution from IPTV to the Connected Home

Creating Content for Digital Multiplatform Age

Improving Network Architecture for Good TV Experience

Networking Coffee Break

Establishing Quality of Experience Through Tried and Tested Technologies and New Architecture

Latest Development for Hybrid Delivery of Managed Services

Utilising Hybrid Services – IP/Satellite as Means to Achieve True HD Experience

Completing the Cinema Experience with Home Theatre Surround Sound

Panel DiscussionWhat Needs to be Done to Improve Broadband Traffic Management and Satisfy Hunger for Bandwidth?

Networking Lunch Break

Afternoon Chairman

OTTtv, IPTV and Multiplatform TV Sharing a Mutual Future

How to Manage Multiscreen Delivery and to Create a Consistent Experience Across Platforms?

Overcoming Integration Challenges and Setting up a Triple Play Value Added IPTV Service Successfully

Enabling Multiscreen Video and Shared Content from Operator's Perspective

Panel DiscussionThe Opportunities and Challenges for Multiscreen OTTtv, Connected TVand Connected Boxes

Networking Coffee Break

Examining the OTT Opportunities and Effect on Local Markets

The Future of TV with Hybrid Services and Content Convergence

Strategies to Engage Content Industry and Operators through Attractive partnerships

Panel DiscussionIs Multiscreen Service ready for a Mass Market Uptake? How to ensure same content works for different screens in the house? Is it safe shifting from one screen to another?

End Of Day One